Orange-footed Scrub Fowl (Megapodius reinwardt)

BIRD FACTS

DescriptionThe Orange-footed Scrub Fowl is a large fowl with a small head. It has a short crest and bare patch of yellow skin round the eye. The legs and feet are orange.

Other NamesJungle-fowl, Scrub-hen

Size45cm

Habitatrainforest, scrub, sometimes mangroves

Foodinsects, soil invertebrates, seeds, fruit

BreedingThe Orange-footed Scrub Fowl builds a large mound of earth and plant matter that can measure several metres in diameter and over a metre high. Yellowish white or pale pink eggs are laid in the mound individually.

Rangecoastal northern Australia from central Queensland coast to the Kimberleys in Western Australia